So I was at a friend’s house the other night. One of my buddies came back from a deployment, so we bought a boatload of booze to celebrate.
I was fiddling about and put two shots of Smirnoff Vanilla Twist and a healthy splash of grenadine into a tall glass filled with ice, topped it up with cranberry-raspberry juice, and stirred it.
The result tasted remarkably like cheesecake. And so, that’s what we called it.
(A quick search on Webtender revealed two other similar drinks, but they are shots and use vanilla schnapps.)
A few months ago, with the same people, we were experimenting with Bawls. Gin turned out well. I added grenadine, which was better. Then my friend used the grenadine in the classic Tequila Sunrise fashion and we wound up with the Sunrise In My Pants. Juvenile, I know, but it’s pretty damn tasty.
After running out of the usual ingredients late one night, one of my college roommates made up a drink consisting of vodka and lime fizzies. He claimed that the results were quite interesting, but somehow it never caught on.
I’ve got two drinks that I invented. One is a dry martini (15:1) ratio, with scotch whiskey substituted for the dry vermouth. No name though.
The second is 3 parts tequila mixed with 1 part kahlua, served on the rocks. I call it a “Tequila Mockingbird” I know mockingbirds aren’t black, but I liked the name so well I was stuck with it.
I posted, and the hamsters ate it. My friend just invented something he calls the Commodore Justice. Don’t know the proportions, but it’s light rum, malibu, vodka, grenadine, Rose’s Lime syrup, orange juice, and melon liquer. They’re very good.
He also does what he calls White Russian, even though they’re not: vodka, kahlua, creme de cacao, and Bailey’s. Alcoholic chocolate milk.
Melon and peach schnapps with raspberry juice is good. Or raspberry with amaretto.
One autumn in college, some friends and I took a fieldtrip to the local orchards and came back with some fresh squeezed apple cider (the thick stuff, not clear). We ended up mixing it with Captain Morgans rum. That was tasty. We called them Rumplestiltskins.
My bandmates and i invented a particularly foul drink called the Helgremite Shooter one year when we were snowed in at a resort we’d been playing (Snowshoe) and basically had to spend an extra four days on top of a mountain in a blizzard. This after we’ve already done a four night engagement there and were absolutely stir crazy.
We actually drank these for a while afterwards, but I heartily caution against it.
The Helgremite Shooter
1.5 oz Wild Turkey
1.5 oz Southern Comfort
Float 2 oz Baileys.
It’s called a Helgremite because it looks like the waters in which they live.
I invented one I called “having rather a heavy period.”
2 jiggers vodka
4 ounces tomato juice
1 tablespoon salsa (for a chunky effect)
Serve straight up and (if you are a sadist like me) garnished with a tampon.
I, too, have splashed rum into root beer. It’s not a favorite, but it’s not bad.
Dreamsicle: (or Vanilla Screwdriver or Dreamdriver or Screwsicle):
Vanilla Vodka in Orange Juice
No name yet, but mighty quenching:
Cranberry Vodka in soda
Cola nut:
Coconut rum in Coke
Commie Margarita:
Vodka, lime, triple sec
And endless variations on the martini. My current favorites:
Ketel One from the freezer with a pickled okra, spicy, dirty
" , with an anchovy olive–dirty.
The first two were invented mostly as a joke, but were consumed nonetheless:
The So-Co-Co-Co: Southern Comfort mixed with hot cocoa. Not too untasty, but mostly invented for the melodious-sounding name.
The Dog Dew: Mad Dog 20/20 (officially “MD”; a cheap wino-type wine along the lines of Thunderbird) mixed with Mountain Dew. Works best if you use the green-colored Mad Dog in the flat bottle. Please keep in mind that these were from times of very little money, in the college years.
The next one is actually quite tasty, and I’m proud of it:
The Pepperon-tini: This is, in essence, a martini with a pepperoncini floating in it, rather than an olive, and which also has some of the pepperoncini brine in it. I guess it’s like a dirty martini, but really hot and spicy. It’s quite tasty, really.
My wife has “invented” some drinks but not created them in reality. They consist of traditional drinks, but with prune juice as an added ingredient:
The Shitty Martini
The Slow, Comfortable, Shitty Screw
The Shitty Screwdriver
and so on